
Movies that feel likePoor Things (2023)
If you loved Poor Things, the closest films we have are Toc Toc (2017), Palm Springs (2020) and Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). All three share Poor Things' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Modern Romance (1981).
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If Poor Things hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: wit, then play
The difference: Trades the ideas of Poor Things for an angle of its own

Cerebral and romantic in the same breath

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Two things both keep coming back to: obsession and doctor
The difference: Sits closer to drama than Poor Things does

Common ground: obsession
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Both are built on the same subject: domestic abuse

The same hand behind both of them: Yorgos Lanthimos


One thread runs through both: love

Both lean on obsession more than on romance

Romantic science fiction in both cases
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